saying an improved pay offer could be enough to stop strikes, scheduled for monday and tuesday. you re watching bbc news. now it s time for how to heal the nhs. we ve been almost 12 hours in an ambulance. there were people sitting on the floor, people on trolleys everywhere. it was just horrendous. record waits in a&e, trolleys stacked up along busy corridors, ambulance crews forced to queue outside for hours with their patients. it does get tricky when you see a time come on the call and it s hours ago and you are thinking, oh, gosh, what are you going to turn up to? and they are in a bad state. the health service in every corner of the uk has been battling through its worst winter in a generation. we are running two and three times above our capacity continually, and often more than that. we ve had crises in the nhs before, but doctors say nothing like this. this is undoubtedly a crisis, and it s undoubtedly a national scandal. we simply haven t seen the action that was nec
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huge advances in medicines, along with changes to our behaviour, like cutting smoking, healthier eating, means it s not unusual to reach our 80s, 90s, even beyond that. but the trend is already putting a huge strain on the nhs. it is thought that over the next ten years, we will need to create another 1millionjobs in health and social care. if we don t prepare for these changes now, and it might not be a winter crisis we will be talking about, but the future of the whole nhs that at stake. to see the latest data on hospitals where you live, you can use the bbc s winter tracker. you just put in your postcode to find the waiting times in a&e orfor operations and ambulances. visit.
huge advances in medicines, along with changes to our behaviour, like cutting smoking, healthier eating, means it s not unusual to reach our 80s, 90s, even beyond that. but the trend is already putting a huge strain on the nhs. it is thought that over the next ten years, we will need to create another1 millionjobs in health and social care. if we don t prepare for these changes now, and it might not be a winter crisis we will be talking about, but the future of the whole nhs that at stake. to see the latest data on hospitals where you live, you can use the bbc s winter tracker. you just put in your postcode to find the waiting times in a&e or for operations and ambulances. visit.
so you are absolutely right, politicians need to have an honest conversation with the public about, everyone to the nhs to be what we ve come to expect it to be, that go to cost more, that s going to require tax increases. if we don t want those tax increases, we need to equally be able to ask what does that mean for what the nhs can offer? the fact that so many more others are living longer is a success story, of course. huge advances in medicines, along with changes to our behaviour, like cutting smoking, healthier eating, means it s not unusual to reach our 80s, 90s, even beyond that. but the trend is already putting a huge strain on the nhs. it is thought that over the next ten years, we will need to create another1 millionjobs in health and social care. if we don t prepare for these changes now, and it might not be a winter crisis we will be talking about, but the future of the whole nhs that at stake. to see the latest data on hospitals where you live, you can use the bbc s winte